Well, I have put a lot of time into Skyrim and am about ready to give it up.
I first called my friend to ask about level scaling. He told me that there was none. What game was he playing?
This game is as egregious as Oblivion, which I quit playing because everything seemed the same. Everything is level scaled in Skyrim. I killed a dragon at level 2. They are just as difficult now that I am at level 38. I raided dungeons at the beginning of the game. Every dungeons difficulty is the exact same relative to my level. True, they threw in a few creatures that don't level. Apparently that tricked some. To get around level scaling, they just changed the name of the creatures. I don't get regularly bandits any more; now I get bandit plunderers. What happened to all of the regular bandits in the world.
I agree with others on the dragons. They should be rare and awesome. Instead they are common and annoying.
Why am I serving these creeps? I would become a better king than any of the people around. I did all of their fighting. Why don't I just rule?
It's a beautiful game. It's fun for a while. But it seems like what I do really doesn't matter. I really feel limited in this game. It's like they keep taking steps backwards. I guess I need to rebuy Morrowind (can't find my copy) and enjoy it again.
I don't know what are you talking about. Sure, it has it's problems, but I am 42nd level and I am able to kill everything with ease, every bloody dragon. And dragons change. The named ones, for instance, have a set power, and the first one is IIRC weaker than the generic dragon, after whom you'll get blood dragons (again stronger), then elder and at last ancient dragons. They're not the same dragons, therefore they are not leveled. Stuff doesn't level with you, you just start getting stronger enemies. The bandits stay that way, you get a few more draugr scourges and deathlords (who at 42nd level are weak ayeways) etc. It's fine most of the time.
What I don't like is that daedric and glass stuff are makeable (or easy to come by) instead of being rare as f**k. Also I sometimes with there was some uber boss to kill at every end of the dungeon, because, come on, death lords? Two power attacks or one sneak attack.
It seems like whatever I do really has no impact on the game world. Great, the Stormcloaks win. Nothing changes except now you just have different looking rulers. It's like they went mmorpg on us. Nothing impacts anything although they pretend that the littlest things impact everything.
It is because the civil war hasn't ended yet. They've retaken Skyrim, but the Empire might retaliate, and that's why there are no major changes - they are preparing for war. Now tell me if much changed when you completed any of the questlines in Morrowind?